Reporting online today in Science, Wadley and her colleagues describe the results of two sophisticated archaeological techniques: analysis of phytoliths, tiny fossil plant remains, which allows identification of plant species; and micromorphology, the high-resolution examination of archaeological remains.
Digging out and examining human remains from ancient cemeteries is the expertise of osteoarchaeologists (osteology being the examination of human remains and archaeology their recovery, with anthropology a combination of both --a hoboth --a turned into a profession for Duhig and took her into the world of crime investigation.
Most of the dead were not identified tonight, pending forensic examination of the remains and notification of the families.
Wildlife officers killed the bear yesterday; an examination of the remains confirmed that it was the killer, The Associated Press reported.
An examination of the remains of similar rockets that struck Ashkelon earlier this year led Israeli officials to conclude that they had been made in Iran.
The other point is that Cookman presents the results of modern forensic examination of various remains, proving beyond doubt that starvation reduced the Franklin expedition to cannibalism.
What detains us is her cool, clinical examination of the remains, the truths that are returned when she scrapes at the marrow of experience.
The examination of the remains, expected to take several years, is being done at a university laboratory by Dr. Anagnostis Agelarakis, a forensic anthropologist at Adelphi and specialist in Greek archaeology.
A closer examination of the remains revealed that they possessed a combination of apelike and humanlike features; the specimens also displayed more features in common with the earliest members of Homo than any other australopithecine species.
Dr Vitelli says that several of her students who are studying bioanthropology, which involves the examination of skeletal remains, are now questioning whether they want to continue in that field, for both ethical and practical reasons.Kennewick Man, and other similar cases, are not entirely representative.
